(London) Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor, found dead on Wednesday at her London home, was finishing a new album, planning a tour and planning to bring her autobiography to the screen, her agents announced on Friday.
The causes of the death of the 56-year-old artist, who had in the past evoked suicidal thoughts, have not been the subject of any communication. An autopsy, the results of which will no doubt take several weeks, has been ordered. It will be decided in view of these results and requests from the family whether or not to open a formal investigation to establish the causes of death.
“Sinead was finishing up her latest album, planning new tour dates for 2024, and exploring opportunities for a film adapted from her book,” her 2021 autobiography Rememberings, her agents Kenneth and Carl Papenfus told the site. their agency, 67 Management.
“Wonderful ongoing project,” they said, expressing their thoughts to the singer’s family and their undying gratitude to those who dedicated themselves to her and worked on these projects.
The disappearance of Sinéad O’Connor, who became a world star in 1990 with the hit Nothing Compares 2 U, written by American artist Prince, sparked an avalanche of tributes.
“No medical cause of death has been given,” the court said Thursday, while police said “the death is not being considered suspicious.”
By 2022, his 17-year-old son Shane had taken his own life. Sinéad O’Connor was then hospitalized after having indicated on social networks that she was also thinking of suicide.
She had appeared in a video posted in early July on the social network Twitter, renamed “X”, where she spoke of her pain after the suicide of her son, and claimed to want to finish a new album.
Besides her music, the singer was known for her fight against sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, which she accused of not having sufficiently protected children. In 1992, she tore up an image of Pope John Paul II on television in the United States.
